Introducing IMSI (as one of the two clinics in Poland), vitrification – also for oncological patients, effectiveness in vitro rate – 47,4%.
Infertility clinic InviMed has three subsidiaries in: Warsaw (exists since 2002), Wroclaw (2006), Poznan (2006). We will open the fourth subsidiary in Gdynia, in the second half of August 2010.

Egg Donation:
This is the treatment indicated for patients who, for different
reasons, may not have oocytes capable of producing a healthy,
evolutionary embryo. It consists in carrying out In Vitro Fertilisation
with donor eggs and the sperm of the partner or a donor, transferring
the embryos to the woman.
The patient receives a hormone replacement treatment with
oestrogen and progesterone that prepares the uterus to receive the
embryos. On the same day that the oocytes are retrieved, fertilisation
is carried out and two or three days later, we transfer the embryos to
the patient. At IREMA all embryo transfers are transfers of fresh
embryos, never frozen. This requires great coordination and
synchronisation, but offers the best results.

Donors undergo the necessary tests to
obtain healthy eggs. Different diagnostic tests are carried out, and
their physical and blood characteristics are recorded, so that they are
as close as possible to those of the receiving couple.

If you are coming to our clinic from a
distant location or from outside Spain, everything is coordinated to
generate the least possible trouble for the patient. Patients must
request an appointment, and will be informed of all the tests that will
be required to study their case, so that they can carry these out
wherever they live. In the ideal scenario, these results would be
submitted to us before this first appointment.

In this first appointment, a medical record
will be opened up, and the woman will be subjected to a scan and a
bacteriology test. The man will undergo a sperm analysis and sperm
freezing. This freezing is carried out to save trouble for the
patients, because this way, patients will only have to go to the centre
to carry out the transfer of embryos, and can go back home on the same
day.

If, however, patients must stay for a night
or two for medical reasons or for their own comfort, we can arrange
their accommodation.
If you come to our clinic via Alicante or Valencia airports,
we can send a chauffeur to pick you up, at no further cost to you. Once
the appointment or the embryo transfer has finished, you will be taken
back to the airport.

Egg Donor Program:
Why donate eggs? Compensations for donors
There are patients who, for different reasons, do not have
oocytes capable of giving place to an evolutionary and healthy embryo,
so the only chance of achieving pregnancy lies in egg donation.
By donating, the donor receives a series of compensations.

One of them is solidarity
The donor, in donating her eggs, is allowing another woman to
achieve a pregnancy that would not otherwise have been possible. When
these women get pregnant it brings them great joy, as they have
normally been trying to get pregnant for a long time, with the stress
and depression that this often entails, with their lives revolving
around their infertility problem. Other solutions, such as adoption,
are complicated, as it can take a long time.
With her donation, the donor is normally very happy to have
been able to help another women realize her dream of having a child.The
waiting lists are long and the scarcity of donors often leads to these
women desisting. Lastly, adoption in many cases is difficult.

Another compensation is personal
When donating eggs, donors are given a comprehensive health
examination, as well as a reproductive health examination, where many
parameters are studied. For example, the quality of her eggs, which
cannot be studied by any other means than by extracting eggs.

There is also a financial compensation
Although donation must by Spanish law be an act of altruism, a
financial compensation may be given for the time, trouble, transport,
meals, etc.

Can I donate eggs?

There are several requisites for becoming an egg donor:

•Age between 18 and 35.
•No genetic, hereditary or congenital transmittable diseases, nor any relatives with this type of disease.
•Good physical and psychological health.
•Normal ovarian function
•Less than six descendents by assisted reproduction or non-assisted reproduction means.
Is egg donation anonymous?

Spanish law establishes that it must be so. It is anonymous both for the donor and for the receiving couple.

The extraction process

Menstruation produces the ovulation
of a single egg. This is insufficient to perform an assisted
reproduction cycle, and for this reason a technique known as “ovarian
stimulation” is used, which allows ten to fifteen eggs to mature per
cycle. A hormonal treatment of 10 to 15 days is carried out,
administered via subcutaneous injections, performing scans and blood
tests to control the development of the eggs and know the ideal moment
for their extraction.

The extraction is carried out
vaginally and guided by ultrasound. It is carried out in an operating
theatre under sedation, so the pain and discomfort is minimal. The
donor can normally go home within two hours.

If you want to know more about the
applicable law, you can read the Royal Decree 412/1996, of March 1,
which establishes the obligatory protocols in the study of donors and
users related with assisted human reproduction techniques and regulates
the creation and organisation of the National Register of Donors of
Gametes and Pre-embryos with human reproduction purposes.